Asphalt Raker

Join us in shaping Seattle’s streets! At the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), we don’t just move people, we connect communities, build safer streets, and create a more sustainable city.

With a bold vision for the future, we’re tackling big challenges: making travel safer, cutting carbon emissions, and ensuring reliable, affordable transportation for everyone no matter who they are or where they live.

Seattle is growing fast, and we’re growing with it. Thanks to a historic voter-approved $1.55 billion investment in transportation in 2024, we’re building sidewalks, fixing bridges, and improving transit connections to keep our city moving.

We’re a team of problem solvers, planners, engineers, communicators, and field crews bringing purpose-driven work to life. Now, we need passionate, innovative talent like you. Let’s build a Seattle that works for everyone together!

This position is responsible for preparing and applying asphaltic materials on job sites and may serve as the lead person on patching crews as required. Work includes being responsible for the finished product, the coordination of the other crew members, and enforcing proper safety and traffic precautions.

• Sets up traffic control at the job site by safety policies and practices.
• Distributes hot asphaltic road-building binder and topping over road surfaces by raking and combing material to correct thickness.
• Rakes asphalt to bring the surface to the proper grade and required contour of the street.
• Tamps and smoothest joints, gutters, connections, road patches, and related areas so asphaltic mixtures will properly adhere, conform to old surfaces, correct surface defects, and provide proper drainage.
• Finishes surfaces by smoothing and tamping asphalt surfaces inacces¬sible to a roller.
• Operates jackhammer, compressor, extruder, ground pounder, and related equipment.
• Repairs utility cuts (water, gas, City Light, and private contractors) by removing temporary material and replacing it with permanent hot asphaltic material.
• Performs other related duties of a comparable level/type as assigned.

One year of experience in hot asphalt construction, maintenance and repair.

OR Combinations of education, training, and experience will be evaluated on an individual basis for comparability.

• Four years’ experience in hot asphalt construction, maintenance, and repair.
• Experience raking asphalt to the proper surface, proper grade, and contour of the street.
• Experience tamps and smooth, gutters, connections, road patches, and related areas so asphaltic mixtures will properly adhere, conform to old surfaces, correct surface defects, and provide proper drainage.
• Experience distributing hot asphaltic road-building binder and topping over road surfaces by raking and combing material to correct thickness.

• Current Washington State drivers' license.

Work is performed around heavy equipment, and heavy power tools require strenuous physical exertion and often involves working around heavy traffic, extreme weather, loud noises from machinery, dust, and the heat and fumes of asphaltic material.

Your application will not be reviewed if these items are missing or incomplete.

Offers of employment are contingent on verification of information provided by the applicant as part of the application process.

Please note this job advertisement is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at…